Today I am fifty two years and two days old. Today it is twenty six years and one day since Jill and I went on our first date. That was one day after my twenty six birthday, Thursday September 16th 1993. I’ve put a wedding photo up on this blog cos I couldn’t find a […]
So Aussie dads are getting “woke”. Well, according to an article on the ABC website, they are. By “woke” the ABC means dads who are finally, finally taking their useless Daddy Pig-ness off to market to be slaughtered. And they’re coming back all cleaned up, ready to push prams, take parental leave and do […]
I was just finishing a sermon when it all came crashing down. Not my sermon. Me. I came crashing down. I remember the moment exactly. Sunday morning, Parkerville Baptist Church, 2005. It was the morning of the church open day. It was a hive of activity. A buzz. Marquees, tents, food, drinks, performances. And me, […]
Back in the days before the internet existed, I would get up Sunday morning primed for the dulcet tones of the BBC World Service’s James Alexander Gordon reading out the English Football results. Did Arsenal win? Arsenal were in the old first division, so I’d know early as that got read out first. It was […]
Michael Tinker is a friend of mine from Sheffield in the UK. He is a singer/songwriter who specialises in creating content and productions for discipling children. (He’s a great folk musician too). Michael possesses a range of musical styles and personas in his children’s performances and appears at schools and church groups across the UK. […]
I’ve just started working with an Australian evangelistic organisation in a new venture called Third Space, aimed at both being a third space for non-Christians to ask questions about the gospel, and helping churches find those third spaces for themselves. We believe that while the Western setting has never been more hostile towards the gospel, […]
Focussed attention is our greatest resource Is your church frantic or focussed? That’s a question worth asking. That line above was dropped by the excellent American Rabbi David Wolpe, in a recent podcast with Jewish atheist, Eric Weinstein. We live in a world that is the opposite of focussed attention. Our world is frantic distraction. […]
I’m a late adopter of TV series. I’m the bloke who dismisses it with a shrug, only to binge watch it later and talk about it as if he were an expert on all things that show. So when I say I loved the Netflix series The Good Place, I really did love it. It’s original, well-acted, and it […]
It’s the third Father’s Day since my own father died. Long enough to forget that fact as I laced on my shoes and went on a cool morning long run. Short enough to feel a pang of remembrance as I ran past a young family walking to a Father’s Day breakfast at a cafe. It […]
The response to the Australian Government’s just announced Religious Discrimination Act legislation is proof, if further proof were needed, that there is no longer a shared vision of the good in our country. The common good is no longer common. The common ground is shrinking – and fast. This is the legislation you get in […]
